Hyperion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJKLMN OPQGRST UVWXYZA2B2C2D2E2KUPF 2G2H2I2J2K2XFL2B2M2N 2EO2BP2Q2H2 SR2S2FLVT2U2L2V2W2V2 X2AY2V2Z2 A3V2V2B3C3D3E3V2QQQQ QV2F3SQK2G3V2N2QQH2V 2QH3V2I3J3B3K3L3M3K2 V2BV2Q2N3G3QF2QO3QQQ P3QHV2QQ2QEQ3H2B3QV2 QF3QFQV2Z2QQL3V2QQN2 K2R3S3 V2QB3QV2HQQ QWT3QKV2QV2B3K2B3B3Q U3H2P3V3W3QQV2V2V2V2 V2A2QA2B3BOOK I | A |
DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale | B |
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn | C |
Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star | D |
Sat gray hair'd Saturn quiet as a stone | E |
Still as the silence round about his lair | F |
Forest on forest hung above his head | G |
Like cloud on cloud No stir of air was there | F |
Not so much life as on a summer's day | H |
Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass | I |
But where the dead leaf fell there did it rest | J |
A stream went voiceless by still deadened more | K |
By reason of his fallen divinity | L |
Spreading a shade the Naiad 'mid her reeds | M |
Press'd her cold finger closer to her lips | N |
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Along the margin sand large foot marks went | O |
No further than to where his feet had stray'd | P |
And slept there since Upon the sodden ground | Q |
His old right hand lay nerveless listless dead | G |
Unsceptred and his realmless eyes were closed | R |
While his bow'd head seem'd list'ning to the Earth | S |
His ancient mother for some comfort yet | T |
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It seem'd no force could wake him from his place | U |
But there came one who with a kindred hand | V |
Touch'd his wide shoulders after bending low | W |
With reverence though to one who knew it not | X |
She was a Goddess of the infant world | Y |
By her in stature the tall Amazon | Z |
Had stood a pigmy's height she would have ta'en | A2 |
Achilles by the hair and bent his neck | B2 |
Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel | C2 |
Her face was large as that of Memphian sphinx | D2 |
Pedestal'd haply in a palace court | E2 |
When sages look'd to Egypt for their lore | K |
But oh how unlike marble was that face | U |
How beautiful if sorrow had not made | P |
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self | F2 |
There was a listening fear in her regard | G2 |
As if calamity had but begun | H2 |
As if the vanward clouds of evil days | I2 |
Had spent their malice and the sullen rear | J2 |
Was with its stored thunder labouring up | K2 |
One hand she press'd upon that aching spot | X |
Where beats the human heart as if just there | F |
Though an immortal she felt cruel pain | L2 |
The other upon Saturn's bended neck | B2 |
She laid and to the level of his ear | M2 |
Leaning with parted lips some words she spake | N2 |
In solemn tenor and deep organ tone | E |
Some mourning words which in our feeble tongue | O2 |
Would come in these like accents O how frail | B |
To that large utterance of the early Gods | P2 |
Saturn look up though wherefore poor old King | Q2 |
I have no comfort for thee no not one | H2 |
I cannot say 'O wherefore sleepest thou ' | - |
For heaven is parted from thee and the earth | S |
Knows thee not thus afflicted for a God | R2 |
And ocean too with all its solemn noise | S2 |
Has from thy sceptre pass'd and all the air | F |
Is emptied of thine hoary majesty | L |
Thy thunder conscious of the new command | V |
Rumbles reluctant o'er our fallen house | T2 |
And thy sharp lightning in unpractised hands | U2 |
Scorches and burns our once serene domain | L2 |
O aching time O moments big as years | V2 |
All as ye pass swell out the monstrous truth | W2 |
And press it so upon our weary griefs | V2 |
That unbelief has not a space to breathe | X2 |
Saturn sleep on O thoughtless why did I | A |
Thus violate thy slumbrous solitude | Y2 |
Why should I ope thy melancholy eyes | V2 |
Saturn sleep on while at thy feet I weep | Z2 |
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As when upon a tranced summer night | A3 |
Those green rob'd senators of mighty woods | V2 |
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars | V2 |
Dream and so dream all night without a stir | B3 |
Save from one gradual solitary gust | C3 |
Which comes upon the silence and dies off | D3 |
As if the ebbing air had but one wave | E3 |
So came these words and went the while in tears | V2 |
She touch'd her fair large forehead to the ground | Q |
Just where her fallen hair might be outspread | Q |
A soft and silken mat for Saturn's feet | Q |
One moon with alteration slow had shed | Q |
Her silver seasons four upon the night | Q |
And still these two were postured motionless | V2 |
Like natural sculpture in cathedral cavern | F3 |
The frozen God still couchant on the earth | S |
And the sad Goddess weeping at his feet | Q |
Until at length old Saturn lifted up | K2 |
His faded eyes and saw his kingdom gone | G3 |
And all the gloom and sorrow ofthe place | V2 |
And that fair kneeling Goddess and then spake | N2 |
As with a palsied tongue and while his beard | Q |
Shook horrid with such aspen malady | Q |
O tender spouse of gold Hyperion | H2 |
Thea I feel thee ere I see thy face | V2 |
Look up and let me see our doom in it | Q |
Look up and tell me if this feeble shape | H3 |
Is Saturn's tell me if thou hear'st the voice | V2 |
Of Saturn tell me if this wrinkling brow | I3 |
Naked and bare of its great diadem | J3 |
Peers like the front of Saturn Who had power | B3 |
To make me desolate Whence came the strength | K3 |
How was it nurtur'd to such bursting forth | L3 |
While Fate seem'd strangled in my nervous grasp | M3 |
But it is so and I am smother'd up | K2 |
And buried from all godlike exercise | V2 |
Of influence benign on planets pale | B |
Of admonitions to the winds and seas | V2 |
Of peaceful sway above man's harvesting | Q2 |
And all those acts which Deity supreme | N3 |
Doth ease its heart of love in I am gone | G3 |
Away from my own bosom I have left | Q |
My strong identity my real self | F2 |
Somewhere between the throne and where I sit | Q |
Here on this spot of earth Search Thea search | O3 |
Open thine eyes eterne and sphere them round | Q |
Upon all space space starr'd and lorn of light | Q |
Space region'd with life air and barren void | Q |
Spaces of fire and all the yawn of hell | P3 |
Search Thea search and tell me if thou seest | Q |
A certain shape or shadow making way | H |
With wings or chariot fierce to repossess | V2 |
A heaven he lost erewhile it must it must | Q |
Be of ripe progress Saturn must be King | Q2 |
Yes there must be a golden victory | Q |
There must be Gods thrown down and trumpets blown | E |
Of triumph calm and hymns of festival | Q3 |
Upon the gold clouds metropolitan | H2 |
Voices of soft proclaim and silver stir | B3 |
Of strings in hollow shells and there shall be | Q |
Beautiful things made new for the surprise | V2 |
Of the sky children I will give command | Q |
Thea Thea Thea where is Saturn | F3 |
This passion lifted him upon his feet | Q |
And made his hands to struggle in the air | F |
His Druid locks to shake and ooze with sweat | Q |
His eyes to fever out his voice to cease | V2 |
He stood and heard not Thea's sobbing deep | Z2 |
A little time and then again he snatch'd | Q |
Utterance thus But cannot I create | Q |
Cannot I form Cannot I fashion forth | L3 |
Another world another universe | V2 |
To overbear and crumble this to nought | Q |
Where is another Chaos Where That word | Q |
Found way unto Olympus and made quake | N2 |
The rebel three Thea was startled up | K2 |
And in her bearing was a sort of hope | R3 |
As thus she quick voic'd spake yet full of awe | S3 |
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This cheers our fallen house come to our friends | V2 |
O Saturn come away and give them heart | Q |
I know the covert for thence came I hither | B3 |
Thus brief then with beseeching eyes she went | Q |
With backward footing through the shade a space | V2 |
He follow'd and she turn'd to lead the way | H |
Through aged boughs that yielded like the mist | Q |
Which eagles cleave upmounting from their nest | Q |
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Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed | Q |
More sorrow like to this and such like woe | W |
Too huge for mortal tongue or pen of scribe | T3 |
The Titans fierce self hid or prison bound | Q |
Groan'd for the old allegiance once more | K |
And listen'd in sharp pain for Saturn's voice | V2 |
But one of the whole mammoth brood still kept | Q |
His sov'reigny and rule and majesy | V2 |
Blazing Hyperion on his orbed fire | B3 |
Still sat still snuff'd the incense teeming up | K2 |
From man to the sun's God yet unsecure | B3 |
For as among us mortals omens drear | B3 |
Fright and perplex so also shuddered he | Q |
Not at dog's howl or gloom bird's hated screech | U3 |
Or the familiar visiting of one | H2 |
Upon the first toll of his passing bell | P3 |
Or prophesyings of the midnight lamp | V3 |
But horrors portion'd to a giant nerve | W3 |
Oft made Hyperion ache His palace bright | Q |
Bastion'd with pyramids of glowing gold | Q |
And touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks | V2 |
Glar'd a blood red through all its thousand courts | V2 |
Arches and domes and fiery galleries | V2 |
And all its curtains of Aurorian clouds | V2 |
Flush'd angerly while sometimes eagles' wings | V2 |
Unseen before by Gods or wondering men | A2 |
Darken'd the place and neighing steeds were heard | Q |
Not heard before by Gods or wondering men | A2 |
Also when he would taste the spicy wre | B3 |
John Keats
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